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With rapid advances in Virtual Reality (VR) and video technology, and a high level of experimentation taking place in newsrooms, there is a hunger for information on what's working and what's not. At the news:rewired conference in London on Wednesday, Ben Kreimer, Journalism Technologist at Buzzfeed's Open Lab; Sarah Jones, VR storyteller and educator; and Parminder Bahra, EMEA Executive Producer for the Wall Street Journal shared the lessons they have learned.

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PBS' investigative series FRONTLINE launched a new immersive documentary on Facebook 360, transporting viewers to war-torn South Sudan where more than 2,8 million people are suffering a hunger crisis, and near 40,000 are on the brink of starvation. We spoke to Benedict Moran, one of the filmmakers behind this challenging production.

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Houston and the entire US economy face unprecedented dangers as the nation's largest refining and petrochemical complex is unprepared for the next hurricane to hit the region, according to an investigative multimedia project launched by ProPublica today. It points out the astonishing lack of urgency among leaders to prevent the disaster from happening.

In partnership with ProPublica, a team at USC Annenberg are using the latest VR technologies in an attempt to wake up people to a potential disaster that is heading their way.